Java took a ton of heat in 2005-2009 (before Node existed) because Rails came through and was eating it's lunch. It's the reason that a huge percentage of the s

Java took a ton of heat in 2005-2009 (before Node existed) because Rails came through and was eating it's lunch. It's the reason that a huge percentage of the successful Web 2.0 companies were built using Rails, not Java or .NET.